Hey friends, my name is Katherine Morales, I'm from Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica and I'm a volunteer in the South-North program of Visioneers and weltwärts. I am currently working in a kindergarten and I have already been living in Berlin for a month. Time goes by fast. If I had to choose one word to describe my experience so far it would be "overwhelming", I think that no matter how much preparation we do before starting our year as volunteers nothing compares to living it. Onc

The project "Mobile-Jugend-Lernhilfe.Jetzt" takes us to different places in Berlin and I take you to an afternoon in the child and youth care facility "Luisenstift". At 2:15 p.m., I set off with my colleague from the office in Schöneberg to arrive about 40 minutes later at the door of the Luisenstift in Berlin-Zehlendorf. There is still relatively little activity in the facility, because most of the children and young people, some of whom are between 12 and 16 years old, arri

Since mid-April this year, I was allowed to be a part of the Visioneers team for 22 weeks as part of my internship semester, gaining a lot of valuable experience in the process. But first a short introduction to me, I'm Judith, 22 years old and I study social work in Regensburg, I left the tranquil Bavaria for half a year to go to the colorful Berlin for my internship semester and - let me say this much - I definitely didn't regret trying out life in the big city. Right at t

I finished my gap year with a third European Solidarity Corps volunteer project. But this project was different from the previous ones, because we were about 30 volunteers from Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, France and Germany. We all lived together in an old hotel in a small town called Rabka near Krakow. There we planned a Youth Festival for the young people in Rabka. As Rabka is a town with a lot of children, our goal was to show the young people that there are also offers

On August 1st, a whole new chapter started for me: a volunteer service at VISIONEERS in Berlin! New is not only the environment, the work and the city, but also living and cooking alone, the 40-hour work week and the few Spanish vocabulary words I picked up from my fellow volunteers Andres and Jordy. I went to Berlin with my family and a full car a week before my first day at VISIONEERS to explore the city at my leisure before my company started the return journey to Cologne

Homeschooling is the key word in the current debate about school closures. While there has been much discussion for months about how homeschooling can be arranged in families and what emergency care is available to parents, residential groups are largely left out of the public debate - even though the need here is particularly high. Children and young people who come from difficult backgrounds and who have already had a difficult start in life face an increasing educational g

Hey guys! I am Fabian, a German volunteer who is doing two months of voluntary service in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, at the "Active Bulgarian Society" (ABS for short) on behalf of Visioneers e.V.. Here I would like to share with you my first two weeks: My first two weeks in Bulgaria were amazing! Already on the day of my arrival I was able to meet the people with whom I would spend all my time for the next two months. They all come from very different countries: Georgia, Portugal

For us , coffee is a matter of course; it wakes you up and tastes good. In Costa Rica, coffee has a much more important role than just being a wake-up drink. Coffee is one of the most valuable export producers in Costa Rica, generating a high income. Coffee cultivation thus has a great impact on the development, coexistence and peace of the Central American country. Since the beginning of exports and the influx of foreign currency, many innovations have been possible, such as

Now that I'm back home, I can reflect on my stay in Bulgaria with a little more distance. First of all, I spent 31 days in Blagoevgrad, a medium-sized city in western Bulgaria. With me there were about 25 other volunteers from different European countries. Especially during the pandemic, I naturally spent a lot of time alone or in a small circle of those close to me, so being able to meet so many new people at once was an experience in itself. It didn't take much effort for m

The Covid 19 pandemic has kept us busy for over a year. According to the contact restrictions during the 2nd lockdown, most of the VISIONEERS team is currently working from home. What mainly brings advantages for some (keyword "undisturbed work"), means for others an additional restriction beyond their private life. The exchange in chat programs, by telephone and video conference does not replace personal contact with colleagues. But a healthy optimism and good self-organizat